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Additional security forces are brought to Kyiv due to the necessity of rotation, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.

“I want to calm the citizens and mass media representatives that this
is a rotation, in other words a changing of personnel which has arrived
to help the Kyiv police unit in ensuring public order,” head of the
Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s public safety department’s directorate for
large-scale and sport events, Oleh Matveytsov, told reporters on
Thursday.

Police are holding such measures due to the statements of opposition
leaders that the pro-EU protest at Kyiv’s main square Maidan will last
until December 17, Matveytsov said.